Introducing 'Reclaimed: The Forgotten League'

Tulsa's Buried Truth by ABC News

Sep 20, 202303:11Society & Culture

For decades, Black baseball players were excluded from the major leagues and forced to create their own space: the Negro Leagues. Vanessa Ivy Rose, granddaughter of Negro Leagues star Norman "Turkey" Stearnes, brings us...

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